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to the account of the exercise which the animal takes in the field, 

 yet I have no hesitation in affirming that this circumstance is but of 

 small comparative moment, if set against the beneficial consequences 

 resulting to his general system from breathing a cool pure atmos- 

 phere, which enables him to bear with impunity the vicissitudes of 

 heat and cold. Indeed the want of voluntary motion may pretty 

 readily be in a great measure compensated for ; whereas, for cool 

 pure air, no one hath yet dreamt of finding a substitute. 



Accordingly, we find that Horses which are treated upon this cool 

 plan, will endure labour v.ith infinitely less fatigue than such as 

 are kept in hot close stables ; and it is a notorious fact amongst 

 sportsmen that (other things being equal) such hunters as are kept 

 abroad, are more frequently in at the death of the game, than those 

 whose treatment is more artificial. 



It may not be improper to observe in this place, with respect 

 to the prejudicial effects of hot air in stables, that seme dawning of 

 common sense after a long night of ignorance, begins at length to 

 shew itself at Newmarket and other places where racing stables are 

 kept, where it was formerly the custom to keep their Horses in a sort 

 of half- stove, half-hotbed from the apprehension that a breath of 

 cool pure air was to undo all that physicking, cloathing and training, 

 were supposed to have accomplished. 



Nevertheless, I am quite convinced that much yet remains, and 

 will lor ever remain, to be done in this particular, until the well- 

 informed proprietors of such Horses will exert their proper authority, 

 and acting upon the same principle in this, as in the other common 

 affairs of life, determine to direct instead of being directed. 



In fact, during the whole of the Summer and Autumn, air can 



